Cigarette-maker.



No. 799,194. PATBNTBD AUG. 29, 1995.

B. P. LAWTON. Y

CIGARETTE MAKER.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 20,1904.

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oNITED STATES EDWARD PAYSON LAVVTON, OF CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA.

CIGARETTE-MAKER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 29, 1905.

Application filed June 20, 1904- Serial No. 213,285.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, EDWARD PAYSON LAW- TON, of Charleston, in the countyof Charles ton and State of South Carolina, have invented certain newand useful Improvements in Cigarette-Makers; and I do hereby declare thefollowing to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention,such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains tomake and use the same.

My invention relates to an improvement in cigarette-makers, the objectof the invention being to provide a cheap and exceedingly simple devicecapable of being conveniently carried in the pocket and which shallrequire only a small degree of skill on the part of the operator to makecigarettes of the usual form.

With these ends in view the invention consists in certain novelfeaturesof construction and combinations and arrangements of parts, aswill be hereinafter more .fully described, and pointed out in theclaims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of myinvention open ready to receive the paper and tobacco; and Fig. 2 is aview in section, the casing or maker being in its closed position. Fig.3 is a view of the device open, showing the paper properly placedtherein; and Fig. 4 is a view showing the device closed around the paperand tobacco.

1 represents my improved cigarette-maker, which may be constructed ofaluminium, tin,

or any other suitable sheet metal or other material, and it consists ofa bottom section 2 and a top section ,3, the two sections being hingedtogether, as shown at 4, the maker or casing as thus constructedcorresponding in length to the length of the ordinary cigarette. Thesesections are crescent shape in cross-section, the bottom section 2thereof being of greater width and depth than the top section 3, wherebywhen the latter is moved to its closed position its outer edge will seatitself on the interior curved surface of section 2, and thus formapproximately a circle having the circumference of an ordinarycigarette.

To make a cigarette, the operator should hold the casing or maker in itsopen position in his left hand with the outer edge of the smallersection 3 toward him. The paper is then placed over the open sections 2and 3,-so that the inner edge thereof will aline with the left handresting full length on the projecting section of the paper, pressing thelatter against the casing. The cigarette is withdrawn from the casing ormaker by grasping the projecting paper with the thumb and forefinger ofthe right hand and exerting thereon a gradual pull in an outwarddirection. The edge of the paper may be moistened before removing thecigarette from the casing or maker; but I prefer to moisten it after thecigarette has been completely removed.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

1. A cigarette-machine consisting of two trough-shaped members eachhaving open unobstructed ends, and hinged together at their inner edges,one of said members being flanged .or turned outwardly at its free edge,the said flange or outwardly-turned edge resting outside of the freeblunt edge of the other section when the two sections are closed.

2. A cigarette-machine consisting of two trough-shaped members, eachhaving open, unobstructed ends, and hinged together along their innerlongitudinal edges, one of said members being of greater depth and widththan the other, and flanged or bentbutwardly at its free edge, wherebywhen the two members are closed the narrower and shallower member restswith its free edge on or near the inner side of the flanged edge of thelarger member, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed this specification in the presence oftwo subscribing witnesses.

EDWARD PAYSON LAWTON.

Witnesses:

A. J. KULINsKI, C. E. SANDERS.

